Air rescue becomes lifeline for pregnancy emergencies in remote Kavre villages

The President Women’s Upliftment Programme launched in 2018 has been providing air ambulance services to save remote area mothers with pregnancy complications.

Yogesh Thing from Lamatole in ward 6 of Mahabharat Rural Municipality in Kavrepalanchok district rushed his pregnant wife Sunita to Bankhuchaur Health Post after she went into labour on August 8. Health workers at the health post’s birthing centre initially assured him that her condition was stable. She was admitted at 7 pm, and through the night everything seemed under control.